Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposite side of the city, attendants lifted Pope Pius XI out of his car, into a sedan chair. The Holy Father had arrived to inspect and inaugurate one of the many new projects his busy mind continually hatches - an Ateneo Romano or Pontifical University, established in the vast church where, in 1929, Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri signed the Lateran treaties between Italy and the Church...
...coffee to use in paying foreign balances, lost heavily. In 1906 the Government began a valorization, scheme (buying coffee at artificial prices, during fat years, storing it for resale during lean) which lasted until the War. It was semi-successful. A second valorization program, started in 1924, proved a vast failure when there were four bumper crops in succession. Result was the 1930 Brazilian Revolution and the creation of the Departamento Nacional do Cafe, which has been grappling with the problem ever since...
Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, in commenting to the CRIMSON on these proposals, emphasized the fact that there are vast numbers of persons in the United States who at the present time do not receive adequate medical care chiefly because they cannot afford it, despite the work now done by private and public institutions. At the same time there are many doctors who have not enough work to make a satisfactory living. If these doctors could be put to work at supplying the existing needs of the "medically indigent" through the use of governmental funds, benefit...
...River, at the little Strand Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River was in the same small class with Robert Flaherty's Mo'ana, John Grierson's Drifters, Joris Ivens' New Earth...
...Head of the finance committee in 1927, he had by 1929 retired most of Big Steel's funded debt, thereby reducing fixed charges some $30,000,000 annually and preparing the company to run the gauntlet of Depression. Second point on Myron Taylor's program was a vast modernization and expansion of plant, now nearing completion. Third point was the merger of two subsidiaries, Carnegie and Illinois Steels. Fourth was the revitalizing of Big Steel with young executive blood...